WELCOME TO THE.....

Trace showing his pig, Buffy!

Reserve Grand Champion for fitting and showing. The judge was tough at this fair!

Brenton even showed, but he's considered "Primary" so they didn't compete against each other.
They all got blue ribbons. He did awesome, we're very proud of him!

Brenton and Oreo

We tell the kids that fair isn't about the money, BUT Brooklyn had a good experience selling her market rabbit. She was terrified of the market rabbit with it being huge and white with freaky pink eyes. So she was afraid to hold it out in the arena by herself. I've never seen her doubt herself like that. Anyways, she was dead last to sell out of the entire fair. I was bummed thinking that everyone would be out of money. I kept reminding myself, "It's not about the money". But as a mom, I feared she would be out there dead last and no one supporting her. A older gentleman that helped the kids in the arena told me that with her being last, it might actually be a good thing. He said not all the time but sometimes there are companies trying to get rid of extra money. Well the rabbits were going for $300 - $450 (Grand Champion rabbit), which is outrageous compared to Grant County fair where they went for $100 - $300.

So she goes out there and these two guys start bidding each other up. One wanted it for his daughter and the other one kept saying as he was raising his arm, "Well if she wasn't so cute." (Some people wonder if he had a little to drink) By the time it got to $700 I was on my knees in shock! The older man that helped with the kids kept patting me and reminding me each time it climbed higher. I'm proud of Brooklyn because she carried that bunny with a smile even though she was scared, but who wouldn't smile I guess when the bidding was nuts. She was a trooper. She walked outta there $900 "richer" as she says. The older man came up to me later and said that he had done the fair for years and never seen a rabbit go for that much.

Brooklyn's not quite used to the idea of only getting ten percent, giving ten percent to the Lord, and the rest in savings for college. Poor Brooklyn! :)

100% Chad

Brenton's after school activity.......

Chad and all his cousins, uncles, brother, etc. are trying to put a race track in Warden. They did a fundraiser at community days where people paid to hit a car. Don't quite get the excitement but must be testosterone related. Anyways, Chad was the one that found the car so we had it for a while before he disposed of it. So everyday after school Brenton put on the safety glasses and grabbed his hammer and went crazy. Must be fun I guess, because he did it everyday until Chad took it away.

First Day of School & Dance

First day of school.

Waiting for the bus.

First day of new dance year.

Fair in a Nutshell

Trace did awesome with Oscar, especially since he's never done this before. His pig was at weight for a month, so he walked him everyday and put him on a diet. Within a couple days that pig tightened right up (wish it was that easy with my bum). He really bonded with Oscar, we'll just leave it at that for respect of Trace! :) His pig got a blue ribbon for market. And for fitting and showing he got, according to his big ribbon, "Champion round"; basically it was a call back for the grand champion round. We were proud he got that far. He really worked so hard.

Brooklyn did better than expected with it being her first year as well. The rabbit barn supervisor had been working with her all summer and he said he thought she had a shot at Grand Champion. She almost did it.....ended up getting Reserve Champion for fitting and showing. The judge said she is the one to watch out for next year, so we'll see if she keeps up her momentum. We're proud of her, she absolutely loves her rabbits, it's the first thing she does in the morning to take care of them. Also Courtney, NiCole, and Brooklyn (the Warden girls) got the Supervisors Award. Thanks NiCole and Courtney for showing Brooklyn the ropes.

Brooklyn, Courtney, and NiCole

This little guy is the newest member of our rabbit family. His name is Jersey.

We stayed in the camper at the fair all week....never left and when we did on Sunday morning the kids whined. On Wednesday during fair Brooklyn was already saying that she didn't want to wait for next year, so against Chad's wishes I guess we'll be going back.